[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Improve user experience when creating new projects (PR #3018)

[Jiří Techet]

> Perhaps this would allow removing the pref altogether.
> "Project->New from folder" would spawn the file chooser and then show the pre-filed dialog for confirmation (maybe one wants to change the project name, if you're running multiple projects against the same source repo). 

I have no problem with the double-dialog thing and I actually prefer this for more flexibility and clarity about where the project gets stored - I just thought it was something that was generally disliked here. From playing with it myself it feels quite natural and this is really just one click without any extra filling.

> And it would default to placing the project file in the project.

But here I don't see a reason why not respect user's preference for the location of the project file when we have such a configuration option and people seem to use it. I think both "external project storer" and "internal project storer" type of people could benefit from this feature alike without having to modify the project file location manually.

If the second dialog for confirmation stays there, the defaults for "Store project file inside the project base directory" wouldn't be so critical though I would still prefer defaulting to something that behaves in a similar way like other editors (plus there's no requirement for setting the "project files" directory to something valid first).

So my current proposal would be the original proposal (minus opening the project configuration) under "Project->New from folder" while keeping "Project->New" untouched and defaulting to "Store project file inside the project base directory" enabled.

> @ell1e "open" is a separate functionality (that already exists). Also since there may be more than one project.geany file in a directory re-purposing "New from folder" for "Open" could become complicated.

Yeah, the whole trouble with Geany projects is their (IMO) excessive flexibility but people are already used to the various ways how Geany projects can be stored and it's up to us to keep things compatible with existing use cases. I guess if I were to create Geany projects from scratch, I would just create a (possibly hidden) subdirectory in the project directory with various configuration files. Opening/creating a project would be just one thing - either a project is found and opened or it is created. The session split would be a non-issue because we could have as many files in the config directory as we would wish without any consequences. But we have to live with the situation that users have possibly multiple project files in the project base directory under different names or these files are stored somewhere outside the project.

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